Lifeline Screening Case Study

Lifeline Screening Services originated in Florida in 1993. The privately owned healthcare system is a health and wellness company currently based in Austin, Texas. Lifeline Screening offers health screening services to individuals throughout the United States. The company originated in 1993 in Florida, by 1998 they had expanded their services throughout the United States. In 2007 the company expanded their services to include blood testing for inflammation, excessive lipids, and high blood sugar. In 2007 the company became a screening service provider in Australia and England.

The company conducts over a million health screening tests every year. Each year Lifeline Screening provides affordable community-based screening events. Some of the many diseases discovered in the screening process include diabetes, aortic aneurysm, and atrial fibrillation. Board-certified physicians review the screening to provide the highest quality of diagnostic health care. In the United States Lifeline Screening is the largest provider of community-based healthcare screening. The screening equipment is the same quality as equipment used in major hospitals. The affordable community-based
Lifeline can detect serious medical conditions, long before symptoms are present. In contrast, physicians and traditional medical clinics can only request diagnostic testing when symptoms are present. Over the last year, the service found serious medical conditions in over 64,000 people. Their medical issues were discovered before they displayed any apparent symptoms. The preventative screenings give consumers the option to get treatment at an earlier stage of the disease process. Typically when a serious disease such as diabetes or heart disease is caught early, it is much easier to manage the illness. Everyone is familiar with the expression, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of